Cheryl Lee Wims disappeared from Seattle, Washington on her eighteenth birthday, May 23, 1983, while she was on her way to pick up a birthday gift. Family described her as quiet, conservative and conscientious; her mother, Ruth, recalled Cheryl’s biggest problem was missing too much school. The family acknowledged Cheryl had a drug problem and did not believe she was involved in sex work, though police said she had some involvement in it.

Nearly a year later, on March 22, 1984, investigators discovered Cheryl’s skeletal remains north of the Sea‑Tac Airport, in the vicinity of two other victims linked at the time to a then‑unidentified serial killer. That killer became known as the Green River Killer. Cheryl’s death remained part of that larger investigation.

In 2003 Gary Leon Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first‑degree murder, including the murder of Cheryl Wims, and was sentenced to life without parole. The Wims family later endured another disappearance when Cheryl’s sister Deborah went missing in 1990.

Did anyone who knew Cheryl or the Wims family have memories or information about her life in Seattle around 1983?